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Chesterfield Smith, America's Lawyer (Hardcover)
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Chesterfield Smith, America's Lawyer (Hardcover)
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Chesterfield Smith spearheaded the American Bar Association's
condemnation of Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
Smith's damning statement "No man is above the law" turned him into
a national figure. But his outsized accomplishments, and equally
outsized personality, had already made the Florida attorney a
legend in his home state.Mary Adkins's biography follows the epic
life of a person driven by the motto "do good." A child of the
rural South turned war hero, Smith put himself through law school
and rose fast to lead the Florida Bar and mastermind the drafting
of a new state constitution. At the same time, he grew his small
firm into Holland & Knight, a legal leviathan he imbued with
his own sense of public duty. His idealism further manifested in
his hiring of women and people of color while his expansive
professional network led to a close friendship with future Supreme
Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Adkins also examines Smith's
mentoring of several outstanding legal figures and the community
service organizations still influenced by his humane vision of the
law. Fully realized and long overdue, Chesterfield Smith, America's
Lawyer illuminates the complexities of a defining Florida figure
who became a legal giant.
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